David Cooper

0395 & 0395.5 - "Hear Me Roar" Presenter

Added 2024-12-05 09:00:01 +0000 UTC

WAIT! Read the post before you start yelling at me.

Homer convinces Marge of the benefits of illegal cable by showing her the "Hear Me Roar!" network, where this presenter introduces a segment about making your own band aids.

The camera cuts to an interested Marge, then back to the TV, where we see:

This sounds exactly like the same woman from the first shot (I'm pretty sure it's Tress MacNeille providing the voice), she's barely taken a breath between lines, but her appearance has completely changed. So...what's going on here? A mere animation inconsistency for some, a major problem for us in the "Every Simpsons Character Ever" game. There seemed like no real way to definitively say if these two are the same lady or not - it won't surprise you to learn that the "Hear Me Roar!" network is never revisited. This could be the same person, rapidly shapeshifting between shots, or two separate people with the exact same voice.

So I'm busting out an emergency 0.5 slot, a Hail Mary move that we have not seen in almost 300 entries. It's not a tactic I intend to use often, but it allows for both "1 entry" and "2 entries" without messing up our numbering too dramatically. She's Schrodinger's presenter, and we will never open this box any further.

You, dear reader, can decide your own canon on how many characters we covered today. I will not judge.

Okay. NOW you can yell at me.

This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.